Unified Socialist Party (Morocco)
{{Short description|Political party in Morocco}}
{{Infobox political party
| name = Unified Socialist Party
| logo =
| logo_size =
| colorcode = {{party color|Unified Socialist Party (Morocco)}}
| secretary_general = Jamal Asri
| ideology = Democratic socialism
Progressivism
Left-wing nationalism
Anti-imperialism
Left-wing populism
| headquarters = 9, Résidence Maréchal Ameziane, Rue Lamoricière, Casablanca
| national = Federation of the Democratic Left {{small|(until 2021)}}
| international =
| website = https://psu.ma/
| country = Morocco
| native_name = الحزب الإشتراكي الموحد
Parti Socialiste Unifié
| leader1_title = Secretary General
| leader1_name =
| founded = {{start date and age|2005|9}}
| founder = Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder
| position = Left-wing
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| seats1_title = House of Representatives
| seats1 = {{Composition bar|1|395|hex={{party color|Unified Socialist Party (Morocco)}}}}
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The Unified Socialist Party ({{langx|fr|Parti Socialiste Unifié}}, PSU; {{langx|ar|الحزب الاشتراكي الموحد}}), previously known as the Party of the Unified Socialist Left ({{langx|fr|Parti de la Gauche Socialiste Unifiée}}, PGSU; {{Langx|ar|حزب اليسار الاشتراكي الموحد}}), is a democratic socialist political party in Morocco.
History and profile
The Unified Socialist Party is a mixture of various movements that sprung up throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It first started with the spin-off "23 Mars" (a reference to the 23 March 1965 students' uprising), a radical, Maoist student fraction of the largest group in opposition to the Moroccan monarchy, the National Union of Popular Forces.
The Party of the Unified Socialist Left was founded by Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder in 2002.{{cite book|author=Lise Storm|title=Democratization in Morocco: The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLT1At6OZH4C&pg=PR12|access-date=10 October 2014|date=29 October 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-06738-1|page=92}} The Unified Socialist Party was founded in 2005 as a merger of the Party of the Unified Socialist Left and the “Fidélité à la Démocratie” association.{{cite web|title=Morocco|url=http://www.europeanforum.net/country/morocco|publisher=European Forum|access-date=10 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910053106/http://www.europeanforum.net/country/morocco|archive-date=10 September 2014}}
The party boycotted the 2011 parliamentary election. In 2012, Nabila Mounib became the secretary-general of the party, and the first woman to head a political party in Morocco.{{cite news|author=Ramdane Belamri|title=Moroccan Socialist Party Leader Blasts Islamists|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2012/05/secretary-general-of-the-morocca.html#|access-date=10 October 2014|work=Al Monitor|date=12 September 2013}}{{cite web|author1=Maâti Monjib|title=Winners and losers in a new political climate|url=http://en.qantara.de/content/democratic-change-in-morocco-winners-and-losers-in-a-new-political-climate|publisher=Qantara|access-date=10 October 2014|ref=17 September 2014}}
References
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{{Moroccan political parties}}
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Category:2005 establishments in Morocco
Category:Anti-imperialist organizations
Category:Left-wing nationalist parties
Category:Political parties established in 2005